Introduction: Qur’anic Studies and its Controversies
Part One – Linguistic and Historic Evidence
Chapter 1 – The Qur’an in recent scholarship – challenges and desiderata – F. Donner
Chapter 2 – Epigraphy and the linguistic background to the Qur’an – R.Hoyland
Chapter 3 – Reconstructing the Qur’an: Emerging Insights – G.Bowering
Chapter 4 – Reconsidering the authorship of the Qur’an. Is the Qur’an partly the fruit of a progressive and collective work – C. Gilliot
Chapter 5 – Christian Lore and the Arabic Qur’an: The companions of the Cave in Surat al-Kahf and in Syriac Christian Tradition – S. Griffith
Part Two – The Religious Context of the Late Antique Near East
Chapter 6 – The Theological Christian Influence on the Qur’an: A reflection – S.K. Samir
Chapter 7 – Mary in the Qur’an: A re-examination of her Presentation – S. A. Mourad
Chapter 8 – The Legend of Alexander the Great in the Qur’an – K van Bladel
Chapter 9 – Beyond single words: ma’ida – shaytan – jibt and taghut. Mechanisms of translating the Bible into Ethiopic (Ge’ez) Bible and of Transmission into the Qur’anic text – M. Kropp
Chapter 10 – Nascent Islam in the 7th century Syriac sources – A. Saadi
Part three – Reflections on the Critical Study of the Qur’an
Chapter 11 – Syriac in the Qur’an: Classical Muslim Theories – A. Rippin
Chapter 12 – Notes on Medieval and Modern Emendations of the Qur’an – D. Stewart
Biography
Gabriel Said Reynolds is Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies and Theology at the University of Notre Dame, where he specializes in Qur'anic Studies.
